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Spring 2013 Announcements: Performing Arts: Celebrating Stars
No, not the astronomical variety, but the performers who have contributed their numerous talents in the Business known as Show. On stages around the world and on screens large and small, these multitalented folk exemplify the show biz anthem, “That’s Entertainment.”
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Music: The Many Sounds of Music
“Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember,” Burt Bacharach, composer and music producer, once said.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Memoir: This One Time, at Band Camp…
We are still telling stories about ourselves, our pasts, our presents, the terrible moments and the joyful ones, and how looking back and digging deep leads us to understanding.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Literary Collections: The Story Behind the Story
What do we want from our favorite writers? This spring’s books suggest that we want to peek into both their minds and their mailboxes. The following titles lead readers through past lives, current struggles, and affirm the importance of the translator’s art.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: History: In-Depth & Out Loud
2013 doesn’t mark a big anniversary for any major conflict—we don’t like our wars to begin or end on the unlucky number—but plenty of blood has been spilled throughout history, and so has a lot of ink.
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Hot Money Books—Cooling Down?: Personal Finance 2012
The recovery of the U.S. economy is definitely underway.
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African-American Interest Books 2012-13: All Our Coverage
PW's announcements of African-American interest titles for 2012-2012.
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Notable African-American Titles: African-American Interest Books 2012-13
A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta and more
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The State of African-American Publishing
PW asked 11 editors and agents involved in publishing books by and about people of African descent what they’re publishing, how they find authors and manuscripts, how they market their lists, and what difficulties they face in a book market that is changing for every category.
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African-American Interest Adult Titles, 2012-2013
The following is a selective list of African-American interest books for adult readers; compiled from publisher responses to our October PW Call for Information, these titles are publishing between September 2012 and March 2013.
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Getting the Skinny: Diet and Fitness 2012
If there’s one thing that never seems to go out of style, it’s resolutions involving diet and fitness during—and especially after—the holidays.
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Guns and Diplomacy: Mysteries & Thrillers Fall 2012
As Buckminster Fuller once said, “The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
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Anything Goes: Focus on Romance: Fall 2012
Romance fiction used to be simple: boy meets girl, conflict is overcome, they live happily ever after. Anything else was taboo.
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Fall 2013 Announcements Registration
Instructions and registration for PW's Spring 2013 Announcements.
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New Trends & Time-Tested Traditions: Self-Help 2012
“Isn’t the very term ‘self-help’ a little old-fashioned? Doesn’t self-help really refer to any book right now that serves the very natural drive of all human beings to find happiness and to be the best that they can be?”
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Art Is a Gift: Illustrated Gift Books 2012
We may like to think that any book is a gift—and any one surely can be. But let’s face it, some make better gifts than others. And when it comes to gifts at the higher price points, thanks to production costs and a narrower market there are certain books that are more appropriate choices than others.
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Defeat: Sports Books 2012
On any given day of the week, moms and dads ferry their children to soccer practices, baseball games, track meets, football scrimmages, and tennis matches in an effort to get their young players to imitate the discipline and to develop the skills of sports heroes.
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On the Journey from There to Here: New Age 2012
Whether you call it New Age or Mind/Body/Spirit, one mission is common to all publishers in this ever widening category—finding titles that will challenge, intrigue, and nourish both devoted longtime readers and the growing number of readers who are open to exploring everything from alternative medicine to Eastern philosophies.
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Wing: Pets & Animals 2012
For years now, the pets and animals category has followed a certain hierarchy: dogs on top, cats beneath them, and “other” animals—birds, snakes, gerbils, hamsters, horses, and assorted other furry friends—grouped a rung below.
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Crossing the Streams: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
We are living in the age of the remix. No genre is sacred, and no compound is too far-fetched. As debates heat up over ownership and licensing of creative works, genre readers and publishers have clearly already decided that the genres themselves are common property and fair game for dissection and recombination.
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